A super angel is a high-net-worth individual angel investor who invests at near-VC volumes and frequency. They often make 20-100+ investments per year at check sizes of $25K-$500K, with portfolio sizes that rival small VC funds, operating as essentially full-time investors rather than the passive part-time angel role the term originally implied. The category emerged in the mid-2000s as successful tech operators (Google IPO wealth, Facebook early employees, PayPal alumni) deployed personal capital aggressively into the next generation of startups, eventually blurring into the institutional micro-VC category.
The canonical super angels who defined the category: Ron Conway (SV Angel, the prototypical super angel; invested in Google...